Yay. Another year, another pause for station identification.
Me
Who am I? I’m Charlie Schick. I’m passionate about exploring how the intersection of bits and atoms help us tell stories of our physical-digital-sublime world. I also advise companies on product design, business strategy, and new market opportunities. I’m a recovering PhD, too, and proudly ex-IBM, -Boston Children’s, -Nokia.
By day
I am Senior Advisor, Invest in Finland, at Business Finland, advising US organizations on business and investment opportunities in Finland. I am focused, as has been my long-time interest, on opportunities in digital health and life sciences.
By night
My main hobbies revolve around embedded electronics, 3D printing, and making in general. Many of my projects tend to be making the intangible tangible, such as ‘what does dementia look like?’ or ‘can we encode immortality in a dying chip?’ I post most of my projects to this blog, so do keep coming back to see what I’m up to. Oh, the places we’ll go.
Grey and Slate, Haberdashers
One recent development has been illustrating maker-inspired designs, which I currently make available on shirts thru my Etsy store, Grey and Slate™. You can read more about my journey here on this blog, on Bluesky (@greyandslate.bsky.social), and in my shop’s about section.
Because I can’t stop
For a very long time, I’ve been sharing my experience, insights, and exploits, especially through writing for and speaking to large audiences and engaging with others in stimulating conversations, including the office of CxOs. Let me know how I can help in this capacity (tho most likely through LinkedIn).
And of course, my standard disclaimer
(my usual riff off of an ancient Cringely disclaimer)
Everything I write here on this site is an expression of my own opinions, NOT of any of my customers or anyone I work for, especially the Finnish government. If these were the opinions of my customers or the Finnish government, the site would be under their name and, for sure, the writing and design would be much more professional. Likewise, I am an intensely trained professional writer 😛, so don’t expect to find any confidential secret corporate mumbo-jumbo being revealed here.
If you have ideas or projects that you think I might be interested in, please contact me, Charlie Schick, at firstname.lastname@molecularist.com or via my profile on LinkedIn.
Yes, you can find me on Twitter. I use it more to follow an amazing community of makers, to be marveled by their creativity, commentary, and caring; though, do say ‘hi’ if you swing by. Left Twitter for good 15feb2023, after 16 years. I got back to the socials, recently, hopping on Bluesky on 09nov25, mostly to reconnect with the maker community and to share my designs. And I am happy I did.
Image “Hand-drawn 6581 chip, large, with MOS SID text” adapted from “Two variants of ‘SID’ sound chips” by Taras Young underCC BY-SA 4.0 . “Hand-drawn 6581 chip, large, with MOS SID text” © 2025 by Grey and Slate, Haberdashers™, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. You can get this image on a shirt here.
